Cigarette snuffer and mount therefor



Jan. 27, 1970 D. J. HERBERT 3,491,773

CIGARETTE SNUFFER AND MOUNT THEREFOR Filed March 25, 1968 FEG. PEG. 2

INVENTOR.

Donald J. Herbert Attorney United States Patent 3,491,773 CIGARETTE SNUFFER AND MOUNT THEREFOR Donald J. Herbert, 178 Shoreview Ave., Pacifica, Calif. 94044 Filed Mar. 25, 1968, Ser. No. 715,671 Int. Cl. A24f 19/14, 13/18 US. Cl. 131235 3 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE An ash tray having a generally vertical wall has one or more hollow cylindrical extinguishers mounted therein and thereon with the aid of an adhesive. In one form, a lateral outer wall portion of the extinguisher is flattened and pasted to the ash tray wall. The flattened portion may be pasted to a folded metal strip which it in turn may be pasted to the ash tray wall, or the flattened portion may be pasted to one or more metal strips or plates pasted together back-to-back, and also to the ash tray wall. If a cylindrical outer wall is used for the extinguisher, it may be placed between two strips or flat plates and against the ash tray wall with the paste being applied between the wall, the plates and the cylindrical surface of the extinguisher.

The invention, in general, relates to means for quickly extinguishing the burning end or butt of a cigarette. More particularly, the invention relates to the combination with an ash tray of a snuffing body cemented to a wall of the tray in a substantially upright position.

Heretofore in the art a number of different types of cigarette snuffers have been devised and marketed, most of which have been associated with an ash tray. In automotive vehicles, the cigarette snuffers largely employed comprise a metal strip spanning the mouth of the ash tray with an enlarged central apertured section of the metal strip serving to receive the burning tip of a cigarette and to extinguish the same. Other prior cigarette snuffers comprise a well underlying a pivotally mounted tray, the well receiving the burning cigarette upon tilting of the tray and serving to snuff out the cigarette when the tray is returned to its initial position overlying the well. Most of these prior cigarette snutfers are disadvantageous, and some are economically prohibitive because of their increased cost of manufacture, since it is diflicult to manipulate the pivotally mounted tray with a single hand or to locate the snufiing element especially if one is operating an automotive vehicle. The present invention is directed to a relatively inexpensive cigarette snuffer and mount therefor at one side of an ash tray which is easily accessible with but one hand of the cigarette smoker and which effectively extinguishes a burning cigarette without attendant fumes.

A primary object of the invention is to provide an improved cigarette snuffer and mount therefor which is readily installed in an upright position on the wall of a cigarette tray.

Other objects of the invention, together with some of the advantageous features thereof, will appear from the following description of a preferred embodiment as well as certain modified embodiments of the invention which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. It is to be understood, however, that I am not to be limited to the precise embodiments shown not to the arrangement of the various components thereof, as my invention can be embodied in a plurality and variety of forms.

Referring to the drawings:

FIGURE 1 is a top plan view of the snuifer component of a preferred embodiment of the invention.

3,491,773 Patented Jan. 27, 1970 FIG. 2 is an elevational view of a preferred embodiment of the invention as installed in an ash tray, the latter being shown in cross-section.

FIG. 3 is a fragmentary elevational view of a preferred embodiment of the invention including the snuffer component and mount component as installed, the view illustrating the insertion of a cigarette butt by the single hand into the snuffer component.

FIG. 4 is a fragmentary front elevational view of a modified embodiment of the invention with a modified mount component effecting installation in an ash tray.

FIG. 5 is a view similar to FIG. 4. but with another modified embodiment of the mount component for installation in an ash tray having an irregular wall.

FIG. 6 is a top perspective view of a still further modification of the invention with mount components on opposite sides of a snuffer component adhered to a wall of a cigarette ash tray.

As particularly illustrated in FIGS. 1 to 3 inclusive of the annexed drawings, I provide as the snuffer component of the preferred embodiment of the invention an elongated metal body, generally designated by the reference numeral 11 and fashioned with an axial bore 12 therethrough. The elongated body 11 preferably is fabricated from rust-proof steel but can be formed from aluminum stock coated with chromium or a chromium alloy, or entirely fabricated of chromium or other suitable rustproof material which is resistant to heat. The body 11 is formed with an annular beveled lip top 13 converging or inwardly and downwardly inclined from its rim 14 and provided with an opening at the center thereof comm-unicating with the top of the bore 12. This construction of the top 13 of the body 11 serves to guide the burning end of a cigarette to be snuffed into the axial bore 12, as clearly illustrated in FIG. 3 of the drawings.

In accordance with my present invention, the elongated body 11 preferably is formed to a generally cylindrical shape but is so formed as to provide a flat section 16 thereon extending between the lip top 13 to the bottom 17 of the body. The flat section 16 serves as one element of a mount, generally designated by the reference numeral 18, for the body 11 within an ash tray 19. As shown in FIG. 3, wherein an ash tray having a straight inclined wall 21 is illustrated, the mount 18 consists as a second element of a mass 22 of an adhesive cement, such as an epoxy resin, which is disposed between the inclined wall 21 of the ash tray and the flat section 16 of the body 11 and which bonds the body to the ash tray in substantially upright position, as shown in FIG. 3. It is to be understood that the ash tray 19 may be a desk tray or may be a concealed tray mounted pivotally upon the dash-board of an automotive vehicle, not shown, within easy reach of the hand of a cigarette smoker who may desire to snuff out or extinguish the flame of burning tobacco in a cigarette at any moment. The butt end or remainder of the cigarette can be released from the hand upon insertion thereof in the bore 12 of body 11 for retention therein for a few moments, and after the flame has been extinguished it can be removed from the bore 12 and disposed in the tray proper for subsequent removal.

In the event that the cigarette tray is formed with an undulating or irregular wall 21, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 of the annexed drawings, the mount 18 for the preferred embodiment of snuffer component 11 is formed either of a folded metal strip 25 disposed between the wall 21 and the flat section 16 of the elongated body 11 with masses 22 of an adhesive cement adhering to both extremities of the metal strip 25 and bonding the same not only to the irregular wall 21' of the ash tray 19 but also to the flat section 16 of the elongated body 11. Thus, the cigarette snuifer component 11 is mounted substantially in an upright position for the reception of a cigarette to be snuffed. In lieu of the folded metal strip 25, the mount 18 can include as components thereof a pair of metal strips or plates 26 and 27 which are arranged back to back with an outer face of each of said plates bonded by means of a mass 22 of adhesive cement to the irregular wall 21 of the ash tray 19 and to the flat section 16 of the elongated body or snuffer component 11 of this modified embodiment of the present invention.

While the elongated body 11 of the previously described embodiments of my present invention is formed with a flat section 16 thereon, the modified embodiment of the snuifer component 111 which I have illustrated in FIG. 6 can be fashioned, except for the annular bevel top 113 thereof can be formed to an entirely cylindrical shape extending from the top 113 thereof to the bottom 117 of the body, with an axial bore 112 extending therethrough. The mount, generally designated by the reference numeral 118, for the modified embodiment .of FIG. 6 comprises masses 122 of an adhesive cement together with a pair of metal plates 126 and 127 which are arranged on opposite sides of the elongated body 111 in engagement with the wall 121 of an ash tray 119. The masses 122 of epoxy resin or other adhesive cement are disposed between the ends of the thus arranged metal plates which lie adjacent to the body 111 as well as upon the opposite ends of such plates 126 and 127 to bond the plates not only to the wall 121 of the ash tray but also to the cylindrical elongated snulfer component 111 of this modification and to hold it between the plates in substantially an upright position for the reception of the burning end or butt of a cigarette.

I claim:

1. A cigarette snuffer and mount therefor comprising, in combination with an ash tray, an elongated body having an axial bore therethrough, a beveled top on said body; said top having a central opening therein coaxial with said bore, a flat section on said body, and a mass of an adhesive on said flat section and on the inner wall of said ash tray bonding said body to said as tray and maintaining said body with its axial bore in substantially upright position within said tray, and a folded metal strip interposed between said flat section of said body and the inner wall of said ash tray, and an adhesive cement on the extremities of said folded strip to bond said body thereto at one extremity of said strip and to bond said strip at its other extremity to the inner wall of said ash tray.

2. A cigarette snuffer and mount therefor comprising, in combination with an ash tray having an irregular bounding Wall, an elongated body having an axial bore therethrough for the reception of a lighter cigarette, a fiat section on said elongated body, at least one metal plate interposed between said body and said irregular bounding wall of said ash tray, and a mass of an adhesive cement on said fiat section of said body and on said irregular bounding wall of said ash tray at the junctures thereof with the outer faces of said metal plate for bonding said elongated body to said irregular bounding wall of said ash tray and to maintain said axial bore of said body in a substantially upright position in said tray.

3. A cigarette snuifer and mount therefor com-prising, in combination with an ash tray having an upstanding bounding wall, an elongated body having an axial bore therethrough, a pair of plates disposed in said ash tray on opposite sides of said body, and masses of an adhesive cement on the inner faces of each of said pair of plates bonding said plates to the inner surface of said upstanding wall of said ash tray and on the ends of said plates contiguous to said body bonding said body to said plates and maintaining said axial bore in a substantially upright position in said tray.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,637,978 8/1927 Anderson 131-235 1,773,176 8/1930 Benjamin 131235 2,371,445 3/ 1945 Irvin 131256 2,764,165 9/1956 Lincecum 131235 2,778,365 1/ 1957 Silverman et al 131235 FOREIGN PATENTS 459,362 8/ 1949 Canada. 784,942 10/1957 Great Britain.

JOSEPH S. REICH, Primary Examiner US. Cl. X.R. 

